Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 12, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Dflly (Morniag Edition) including Bunday E ro0 Month » e Omaha Sunday likx, malied to any address, One Year. fi-luumn OFrrICE, No. OMARA. Drafts, check: #0 be made payable t) the order of the company, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ er, Ono Year. $10 00 ;‘h‘ un{n'th- 5 00 8 FARNAM STREET. ROOM 6, TRIAUNR BUILDING. 13 FOURTRENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE! o Al communiontions relating to news and torial matter should be -Mn.ued 0 the Ebi BUSINEAS LETTRRS! All businoss letters And romittances should bo idreased to Ti PUBLISHING COMPANY, and postoffice orders THE BEE POBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statemeat of Ulroulation. State of N-hnakni g County of Douglas. | Geo. B. [zschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Dally Bee for the week ending Sept. 9, 1857, was as lows: Baturday, Sept. 3 Sunday, Sept 4 esday, Sept. 7.... ;numn.saut. Lo, riday, Sept. 9. Average. G C] Sworn to and subscribed in mysg;aunee 4his 10th day of Septewber, A, D. 1887, N, P. FEIL, [SEAL Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, %“ Douglas County, 3 Geo. B. Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual verage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of September, 1846, 13,080 coples; for October, 1856, 12,089 copies; for Novem- ", 1886, 13,345 coples; for December, 1856, 18,257 copies: for January 1887, 16,200 coples; for February, 1857, 14,196 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, Islocopies; forMay, 1 June 1887, 14,147 copl 003 coples; for August, Gro. B TzscHUCK. Sworn and subseribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A. D., 1857, [SEAL.| N. P. Frir. Notary Public. TnE promotors of the Motor street rail- road are resorting to sharp vractice which no law abiding citizen can ap- prove. THE last victim of high artis E. K. Valentine. His alleged portrait in Sat- urday’s Republican would pass for one ot Frank Mayo's three guardsmen. The artist has evidently played a practical joke on Val. Dr. Mercer presided over Hascall's hoodlum meeting a week ago. That gave him a blanket mortgage on the council with the privilege to tear up pavements on Sunday and lay track on his motor anaconda unmolested. CHIEF SEAVEY committed another un- pardonable crime, in the eyes of Mr. McShane, when he allowed some of his policemen who escorted the New York firemen through the streets to appear “in frock coats and bob-tail coats.” They should have all appeared in full dress uniforms with epaulets and gilt cord, tassels and white kids. Nothing shortof this would have satisfied the wsthetic taste of McShane. Seavey must go. — The figures for the patent office for the fiscal year ending with last June showed that the inventive genius of the country isnot on the decline. There were nearly forty-one thousand applica- tions entered during the year, probably the largest number in any one year since the office was created, The complaint of lack of clerks and room is reported by the commissioner, an entirely inexcusa- ble condition in view of the fact that the office 18 more than self-sustaining, having last year yiclded a surplus of $180,000, while the aggregate for several years sums up into the millions. In permitting an office thatis a source of revenue to the government to be short of means to expeditiously do the business required of itis an injustice to those who pay their money to sustain the office which ought not to exist. A NEWSPAPER at Lewiston, Me,, has been collecting data rogarding the indus- tnal. conditions of about 150 cities and townas in the state, and the general result is not of a nature to attract population to that state. The figures in bulk show a hietle advance during the past year, but this has been accomplished in a fow lo- calitios. Even Portland and Bangor have realized no very noteworthy growth, ana are doubtless very sleepy and stupid towns. Kastport, Farmingtou, Bar Har- bor and Camden appear to have experi- enced the most considerable advance, the last two chiefly by reason of their attrace tions as summer resorts. But the corre- spondents at most points sent in exceed- ngly gloomy reports regarding the pres- ent condition and outlook of the towns they represented, the effect of which is to give anything but an encouroging idea of Maine as a promising field for profita- ble investments, THE course of Ewpire moves steadily westyard, It is estimated that the pres- ent year will add 100,000 eastern people to the population of the Pacitic coast, the largest influx in any year since the coast was settled, A San Francisco paper says that very few of the new comers are Europeans, nearly all of them coming from New England, the midadle states and the easternmost of the grain states. This it regards with particular satisfac- tion, remarking: ‘‘Thisisthe best Amer- ican stock; the bone and sinew of the nation; the flower of American people. They will plant the schoolhouse and the newspaper wherever they go; will uphold free speech and a free ballot, and will maintain the law and preserve order.” While California and the coast have been receiving this generous acqui- sition of population, a much greater number of people have come into Ne- braskna, Kansas, lowa, Dakota and Min- nesota, not all of thew, indeed, of the class so landed by our San Francisco con- temporary, but an industrious and thrifty people who will make good citi- zens in all that the term implies. It is probable that the population of Nebraska alone will be found to have increased during the present year quite 150,000, and very likely no other state will be able to show a largor gain, The overcrowded east has still many thousands to spare, and there is yet ample room in the great west for all who are willing to work, They Should Be Falr. Ot all people who are seeking to re- form the world by moans of party organ- {zation, there 18 none of whom absolute fairness oan more properly be demanded and effacted than of the prohibitionists. They claim that the buttle they are fighting 18 chiefly moral in its character, and they do not hesitato to summon to their support religion, divine mandate, and all that 18 included or implied under the head of moralities. ing such shibboleths is under the strong= est obligations to be truthful in all its declarations, to avoid all deception, to deal in no sophistries, to state as fact only that which is incontrovertible, to be in all its utterances and acts candid, straighttorward and honest. cent prohibition A party employ- The re- convention of Mas- sachusetts was not wholly governed by this principle, as a single statement of its platform will show. This 18 the assertion that the license system is practically a failure, and that even under high license the diminution of drinking saloons is scarcely apprecia- ble. The prohibitionists of Massachusetts have no excuse for being ignorant of the facts regarding tho results of the license system, and if they are properly informed regarding them they must stand con- demued of having deliberately proclaimed an untruth in the above declaration. The unquestionable record is that the license system, wherever it has been faithfully enforced, is a complete success, accom- plishing all and more than its support- ers have claimed for it. Take the most recent experience with it, that of Minnesota, Within thirty days after the law went into effect the number of saloons in the portion of the state where the tax had become operative had decreased between four and tive hundred, and it is probably safe to say that at this time there are a thousand fewer saloouns in Minnesota than were in existence a year ago. In Michigan the license and local option laws together have reduced the number of drinking saloons by Jiun- dreds, vindicating the wisdom of these laws to the entire satisfaction of the in- telligent and unprejudiced population of that State. In Ohio the Dow law, which prescribes a moderate tax and cannot be compared in effectiveness to a high li- cense system, has wiped out hundreds of saloons and they continue to die under 1ts operation. KElsewhere similar equally gratifying results of the license system are matter of unimpeach- able record, which only those hopelesslv steeped in prejudice will refuse to ac- knowledge. Equally untrue is the state- ment that the principle of local option has been shown by numeraus examples to be insuflicient to guard any given lo- cality from the inroads of liquor selling. The truth is that the instances are very fow in which local option has not been entirely cffective 1n excluding the sale ot liquor from the communities adopting it. The established fact that prohibition does not prohibit, to which the experi- ence of Massachusetts has conspicuously contributed, and which is being every day verified by half a dozen states, cannot be set aside by such inexcusable misstatements as the Bay State prohinitiomsts make in the plat- form declarations noted. 1t is not surprising, in yiew of its pre- varications, to read that the Massachu- setts convention was “‘run by a machine with a deftness and assurance equal to that of any of the old party machines,”” and that it ‘‘emphasized more clearly than ever the recent tendency of the party away from temperance and toward a state of childish delight at playing in politics. There were a few honest souls in the body, but *‘the majority paid far more attention to the small squabbles over oflice, and the boasts that they were attacking a party which they should defeat, than to discussing the temper- ance outlook. The saloon yielded every- where to tho ballot-box as an object of interest.”” With such methods and man- agement the cause of prohibition cannot expect to advance with intelligent and fair-minded people. The Stato Fi The Nebraska state fair at Lincoln is in full progress and will continue through the week. Under the experienced man- agement of ex-Goyernor Furnas, and the exceptionally liberal inducements offercd by the association, there is assurance of the largest and finest display of the pro- ducts of Nebraska ever made, notwith- standing the fact that the seuson has not been altogether propitious. Every de- partment will be well filled, and the gen- erous premiums to be awarded will bring out the very best that our farmers huve to show. The exhibit of stock is ex- pected to be especially large and fine, and in all respects there is rea- son to believe that the Nebraska State fair of this year will afford most gratitying evidence of the agricultural progress and material prosperity of our people. Apart from the attractions of the fair itself, there will be more than the usual amount of diversion for those who at- tend. The races will surpass any ever before held in the state, one of the feat- ures of which will be a special exhibition by the phenomenal trotting stallion Jay- Eye-See. Theroe are the best of reasons why all the people of Nebraska should take a lively intorest in the success and prosperity of this annual exhibit, and it i3 hoped that nothing will interpose to prevent the fair of 1887 exceeding all pre- ceding exhibits in the extent and charac- ter of the display and in financial re- turns. A Hopeful Prospect. We some time since noted the fact that a railroad project was in contemplation from Salt Lake City which beld out large promise for the future of that com- munity and for the torritory of Utah generally. We now learn from the Tribune that the railroad boom is moving with most gratifying momen- tum, and from the exuberant tone in which that paper referred to the project it1s evident that the success of the enter- prise 1s regarded as assuring results of very highest importance to the territory, and especially to Salt Lake City. The provosed road is to have its termini at Los Angoles and Salt Lake City, and to pass through the best mining region of Nevada. It would be the short route to a region where 200,000 people are coming and going annually, and it would be a transportation line for large amounts of ore, fruit, coal and other commodities. There seems to be no reason to doubt that there isa substantial demand for the road, and that it properly constructed and adequately eauipped 1t would be a paying investment from the start, It would also have the effect to give Salt Lake City something of a boom. This might not quite reach the dimen- sions outlined by the sanguine forocast of the editor of the Tribune, but it would undoubtedly be very considerable. The time is certainly coming, and may not be very remote, when Salt Lake City wil attract more attention from eapital sceking safe and profitable investment than it has yet done, and once it begins to push forward it is likely to move with rapid strides. The city is favorably located for a com- mercial and manufacturing center, and this fact is not likely to be much longer overlooked. It is among the probabili- ties that ten years hence Salt Lake City will contribute five times us much as it now does to the general prosperity. And in the progress to that position the problem that has so long troubled Utah will be successfully solvea and perma- nently disposed of. For sublime check and tenacity in pur- suit of boodle, commend us to Cadet Taylor. He actually asserts at this late day that the courts have upheld his fraudulent printing contract, and claims that his peper 1s still the official organ of the city, He does this in the face of two injunctions, and the plea in court of his own attorney, John M. Thurston, and the city attorney's admission to the court, that no legal contract has been made yet because the council had never voted it by the requisite num- ber. Even if Judge Groff’s injunction was dissolved, the fact that Cadet's con- tract calls for 60 cents per square when the Ber offers to do the advertising for 81 cents, would prevent the council from going on record to ratify the bogus con- tract. If Cadet imagines that he can Yleece the taxpayers of Omaha without protest and without hindrance, he mis- takes their temper. No one will question the necessity for larger fair grounds and a one-mile race: track in this city. The city is encroaching upon the present site, so it will be impossi- ble to enlarge that; but an admirable lo- cation may be found upon the wide plattean just eest of Fort Omaha. Saun- ders or North ‘I'wenty-fourth street fur- nishes a level, graded thoroughfare from and to the city, and the Belt Line could easily put in a stub track to the fort and the proposed site. The real estate upon which the present race-track1s located is becoming so valuable that it cannot be held for the purpose much longer. The driving park and fair ussociations will soon be compelled to look elsewhere, and when they commence looking it will ap- pear that every railroad in Omaha has suddenly discovered a location near its line which was especially shaped by the hand of Providence for a one-mile race- track! AFTER seeing the admirable grounds upon which Camp Logan was located, the question naturally arises, why did the department deem it necessary to go to Bellevue to find a suitable place for target practice? The space allotted for the drill ground in the camp certainly would make a perfect fleld for target shooting or any other military manauvre. ONLY ninoteen members of the police for ce, namely, those that served under Tom Cummings, have been placed on the August pay roll by the couneil an- archists. And still Hascall makes his dupes believe that they are not starving the police by following his lead. OcCASIONALLY we hear the report that Tom Potter and Charles Francis Adams can’t run together long before encoun- tering a hot box. This is followed by the report that as to their personal re- lations everything 1s as smooth as a greased rail, But— Tue new Union Pacific bridge will be an excellent roadway for bicycles, but even blind horses are not likely to cross the bridge in the face of a locomotive. AND now Douglas street has ceased to be an unobsiructed carriage drive and her superb asphalt pavement is a thing of the past. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Hartington will invest a liberal purse 1n an artesian well. The contract for the county court house at Chadron has been lct. The Catholics of O’Neill are building a pastoral residence to cost $3,490. Blair sent about thirty coach loads of visitors to the Omuha fair and reunion, The Missouri Pacific has commenced grading for the extension fo Hastings. The Loup and Elkhorn Baptist associae tion will meet at Hartington on the 20th, The Citizens’ bank, of Wayne, capital $85.000, has begun business. A, L. ‘Tucker is president. Columbus will soon vote on the ques- tion of issuing $25,000 in bonds to bridge the Platte and Sioux rivers, The Butler county Press has passed the fourteenth milestone in its career, and will continue on deck while democracy is worth fighting for, Three Greenwood druggists, who as- saulted the Slocumb law on the sly, were relieved of §30 each by the peace proservers of Plattsmouth, R. L. Slater pulled his gun on F. H, Barton in Nelson last Monday and shot h in the back. The wound is not ngerous. Slater 1s under bonds. The railroad committee of the Mastings board of trade have received definite assurances that the Santa Fe road be extended from Kansas to that point. Canpitalists have taken hold of the Cha- droa stone quarry with the intention of develeping it and distributing the pro- duct in neighboring markets. The stone 18 pronounced the best ia the state. ‘I'wo highwaymen were given a ride by a farmer on the road to Jackson last Monday. They reciprocated his kindness by clubbing him over the head and robbing him of everything worth tak- ing. Mike Flynn, a pronusing young horse thief from’ Saunders county, was picked up in Fremont Friday and jailed. He is only eighteen years of age and will probably reach his majority in the peni- tentiary. The Lincoln Democrat finds it neces- fary to remind the inquisitive that the state board of transportation is not work. ing exclusively for the benefit of the cap- ital city. The information is timely and will be filed for early reference. Mean- while Omaha’s complaint of unjust dis- crimination is pigeon-holed as indefinite and beyond the jurisdiction of the board. Georl;ge Mann, of Plattsmouth, reports that while airing his shape and a new suit of clothes ‘on a street corner in Omaha, Thursday, he was nrprnmhe«l by a vigilant copand .induced to give a skotch of his life, or go to jail as vicious character. d sus- George feels sore, naturally, over the incident, but it serves ONDAY, Plattsmouthers that oun their shape far as & warning they cannot travgl from home. Senator Casper,. of Butler county, is one of the few men 1n the democratic party who will not change or modify his ovinions or lower his scardy manhood to catch a passing wave of political favor. He is not built that way. Believing in rigid regulation of the liquor traflic, the medicine men of his Fnrty rejected his name for the oflico of county treasurer and practically boosted the republican candidate into the oftice. Four gentlemen ot leisure and light fingered, at Whisman, threatened to cut off the ears and chisel the nostrils of any officious donstable who attempted to dis- turb their raids on loaded freight cars. Deputy United States Marshal Pinneo heard of ths threat, and unfurling his sound caves, sailed into their roost one morning last weck. The bold bad men wenkened at once and meekly held out their hands for the bracelets.: They will make & superb quartette for the Mosher laundry if they do not break jail. N. F. Simpson, a Lyons butcher, wears a sore spot for a bustle. Last week a thousand pound heifer had a go-as-you- lease with him in a ten-ncre patch, Simpson took the pole and the lead and was a good length ahead on the home stretch wherea barb fence loomed up. To jump it was out of the question, The next best thing was to crawl under, and while the butcher was posing for the plunge the heifer came up behind on a L: 9 gait and shot him under the wire. The concussion took the slack out of Simpson’s lungs but he wore a torn trousers and a sore memory. The marriage of Frederick May and Catharine Bissel 1n the presence of 10,000 people on the fair grounds at Hustings last Friday distanced the races as o drawing card. The News describes the tie-up as a modest, fashionable event. The bride, a grass widow of experience, was decked 1n a ‘‘green cotton dress with flounces and wire work,” the latter being particularl; prominent. The blooming and timid bridegroom wore an evening suit of last year's plow clothes, trimmed with deep red blushes. “When the coming of the twain was an- nounced,’ says the News, ‘‘and as they took their seats upon the platform a great cheer went up from several thousand throats, while Jay Cherry hitched u few seats nearer, that he might be first at the osculatory part of the ceremony. The prospective groom was evidently suspicious of Jay's intentions and seemed 11l at ease, though the bride, a blooming grass widow, having had the advantage of a former experience, was perfectly self-possessed, and seemed to cnf'oy the whole affair. In fact, itis said that her assurances alone prevented the timorous {ounfl man from backing down at the ast moment and fiying from the trying ordeal. When ~ al was ready and _ the bridle had given a last look of encouragement to her intended spouse, the Rev. Dr. Britt arose and pronounced the ceremony of the Methodist Episcopal church, after which Mr. and Mrs. May were introduced to the assembled multitude, which agamn broke into prolonged cheering. Above the din was lieard the piping voice of Jay Cherry demanding his prerogative of kissing the bride, but at the last moment his courage failed him, and John L. Kent, of Verona, was the only man in the vast ‘assemblage who had the fortitude to do honor—not even excepting the groom. In a neat and eloquent speech the Hon. Mr. Cisney, on behalf of the association, then presented 2 handsoine bouquet to the radiant bride, atter which followed a eral handshak- ing, and the great event was a matter of history.” lowa Items, invest in Tipton will an artesian well. A new elevator has been completed at Persia. Oskaloosa revels in the luxury of free postal delivery. Dubuque boasts of a large opening for a canning factory. The manufacture of sorghum is one of the thriving industries of Logan. The Mutual Pacific telegraph line is t? be extended grom Omaha to Sioux Jity. Hon. J. B. Grinnell thinks 200,000,000 bushels as the corn crop of Iowa this year a safe and conservative estimate. ‘I'ne tomato vineyards of Davenport are ripe for the canning factory. Two hun- dred more hands are needed to gather from the fields the luscious product. ‘Wednesday night nine business houses in Murray burned to the ground. Fire caught in a small 5rocery and communi- cated to others. Origin unknown. Several boys from nine to thirteen years of age broke into the Lutheran church, at Decorah, one of the finest in the north- west, and destroyed the organ, threw mud on the earpet and tore up the bible and gowns. The damage is estimated at several hundred dollars, The home and barn of Reimer Mei- ear Davenport, was dos!rn{ml by day morning. The family nar- ruwlr escaped with their lives. Several fine horses were cremated and farm ma- chinery consumea. Meiburg dropped a lighted 1antern in the hay and started the blaze. Loss, $6,000. The Farmers' alliance held a conven- tion at Des Moines last week. At the convention Thursday,140 separate organ- izations, scattered throughout the coun- ties, were represented by delegates. The convention adopted a plattorm which calls for a reduction on passenger fares on first class roads to 2 cents a mile: also for the creation of a department of agri- culture, whose head shall be a member of the cabinet; also for the reduction of the legal rate of interest in the state from 10 to 8 per cent; also that the railroad commissioners should be elected instead of appointed. The convention elected as president for the ensninfi year Jess Ken- nedy, of Ida Grove, and “for secretary August Post, of Moulton, Dakota, Corn is ripe and the crop first-class in the region of Huron. Rapid City croskers predict the col- lapse of the town with the extension of the railroad to Deadwood, A telenhone war rages in Rapid City. Altogether there have been twenty-five phones ordered out by subseribers. The nulitia encampment at Huron developed a small riot over a loaded jug. The corkscrew supplanted the bayonet and the disorder ended with the drown- ing of the jug. An interior editor, who has struggled with glory, big prospects and an empty purse, pathetically declares that “‘empty honors do not pay rents, printer, gro- cery or stationery bills, What we want, need und must have or bust, is something substautial,” el AMUSEMENTS, PINAFORE AT BOYD'S. Pinafore was played last night at the opera house to a fair-sized audience and will be produced again this evening. The cast comprises Mrs. Franko nsJoueyhlne; Mr. W, O. Sanders as Sir Joseph, and Mr. Tilla, of this city, as Ralph. The singing of the prim;lpnfu in the main is satisfactory, and improvement in that of the others will be made for to-might's performance. METZ'S GARDEN, At this place of amusement, last night, notwithstanding the chilliness of the at- mospliere, the attendance was almost as large as at any of the earlier perform- ances during the season. There were two pieces and in each the well known company at that place appeared to excel- lent advantage. 'Fhe audience was kept in laughing mood throughout and at the tinal drop the performers were treated to & recall, SEPTEMBER STATE CORRESPONDENOE. Fairbury Still KRushing Rapidly to the Front. Famsury, Neb.,, Sept. 10.—[Corres- pondence of the BEg.]—Work 1 the new depot, round house and other buildings of the St. Joseph & Grand Island and the Kansas City & Omaha is progressing rapidly. Colonel Harbina's fine new store building 1s being plastered.* George E. Jonkins has finished off his store in- terior in splendid style. He has just re- turned from the east with a big stock of dry goods, T.T. Berry & Bro. huve opened up in grand shape in the store room formerly occupied by Hart & Son. New business venturcs are being com- menced almost daily. Evorything indi- cates a lively time in l-‘mrburg this fall. A mnew hotel is needed, and somo one with capital and go-ahea litiveness should come to this booming city and build a fine hotel. George H. Bailey has gone to Lincoln with all his trotting stock, among which are somo of the best bred horses ever offered in the west, He has collected them with great care for breeding pur- poses, As Mr. Bailey was the former owner of the great Saturn and Consul, and brought them both into prominence, 1t is readily conceded that he knows what good ones are. His entire stud of twenty- five will be offcred at auction the 13th inst,, at the fair groundsin Lincoln with- out reservation, " Bob_Higgins, a nephow of Jim Hub- bles, is mysteriously missing since Sun- day morning, and his mother, a widow, ihs‘s\m‘crlnz great distress of mind about m. L. C. Champlin is the last victim of robbers. Some villain went through his house the other might and stole what money he had in the house, but disturbed nothing else. " ‘The farmers are bringing in a good many peaches at this time. There will be a good crop of apples. This county illfcueml cannot complain this year. 'he worls on the waterworks will be commenced soon. Mr. Strang, of Omaha, has the contract. Light at ied Cloud. Rep Croup, Neb., Sept. 0.—[Corre- spondence of the BEE.]—“Let there be light, and there was light.” As the illum- ination of the day depended upon this command, so the lighting of this city has been delayed until the municipal author- ities have given the self-same command. The citizens of Red Cloud have now wit- nessed its fulfillment and rejoice in being 1n the best lighted city in the state. Last spring a company know as the Red Cloud Electric Light company was or- ganized and made a proposition to the ity to furnish it a given number of 2,000 candle arc elecwic 1ights at an annual rental. The proposition was accepted and the company has placed a plant of & forty-candle resisance, obtaining their power from an eighty-horse power tur- bine wheel run in connection with the water power used by the Red Cloud Milling company. Ten lights have been placed at different points in the city and the \:venink' of the third day wore first lighted. As those ten strect lights burst forth their brilliancy all the leading stores and hotels shared in tho same improvements and Red Cloud can truly say that she is a lighted city. This useful and excellent improvement is due to the energy and enterprisc of her citi= zens in general, but her mayor and coun- cilin particular. They have labored manfully and persistently for the inter- ests of Red Cloud. She has kept to the front in both public and vrivate improve- ments and continued to grow. A short- age in crops or a temporary lull in busi- ness does not discourage or dishearten, but simply gives opportumity for prepa’ ration for greater efforts. Property is steadily increasing in value, thus demon- straung the fact that the confidence of the people 15 constantly strengthening. Improvements are being made that are to last for years. and we find the same watchful care exercised in the manage- ment of city affairs as is practiced in a well regulated business. A system of waterworks costing be- tween $20,000 to $30,000 will be in opera- tion by October 1. A fine $13,000 bridge is now being built across the Republican to take the place of the wooden one that has done seryice for the last eight or ten years. Building at Broken Bow. BrogeN Bow, Neb., Sept. 10.—[Corre- spondence of the Bee.]—The town is still booming, new buildings springing up on every hand, and most of them are first class, The Odd Fellows are coming to the front with a new $10,000 hall, 112x30 feet, two stories high, with pressed brick front. The Catholics have had a block donated to them by Holland & McDonald, on the corner of Broadway and Coon street, and will soon eommence the erec- tion of a very fine church. The United Brethren are building a new church that will cost about $6,000 or $7,000. This is the fifth church and still no Congrega- tional. ¥ . Court is still in session. Several cases of importance have been tried. The Bow will be lnrge]* represented at the state fair this year. The county fair is hold here September 20, 21 and 22. Extra pains ll‘? being taken to make this the best exposifion ever held in the west, There will also be some good racing. —— Sleep—Why We Do lt. Science: In an address to the Anthro- yolcglcnl society of Brussels, Prof. Leo irrera_has given a resume of some oints in the chemical theory of sleep. The phenomena of sleep have in common with other vital functions the character of periodicity, An examination of such periodic functions in general may aid_in ascertaining the cuause of sleep. The respiratory rythm is regulated by the amount of oxygen and carbonic acid in the — arterial blood. When the blood is charged w:th oxygen the respiratory centre momentarily sus- pends activity; but soon the tissues yield their oxygen to the blood,have it replaced by carbonic acid, and the blood thus modified acts as an excitant to the respi- tory centre, Ranke has shown that the fatigue and the recoyery of muscles is due to a similar alternation of the uc- cumulation and discharge of certain “fatiguing substances,’” chief among which is lactic acid. An mjection of this acid into fresh muscle render it incapa- ble of work; washing out the acid re- stores the activity. Cannot sleep be explained by a similar chemical theory? Preyer has extended the views of ~ Binz, Obersteiner and others (who all agree in making the ac- cumulation of certain produets of fatigue —srmildnnfisslnfl'c —~the cause of sleep) by calling all such fatiguing products ot activity “ponogenus,” These accumulate in waking life, are really oxidizable, and absorb the oxygen intended for glands, muscles, and nerve centers until action is impossible and sleep sets in. Gradu- ally the ponogens are destroyed by tion, slight excitation is arouse the centers, and waking life be gins. Among the ponogens Pi counts lactic acid as the chief, but the experimental demonstration of this has been unsuccessful, and the theory, ae- cordingly, not generally adopted. Since these researches Armand Gautier has found in the human body a series of five organic bases akin to creatine, erea- | and calls' them | tinine, and xanthin “loucomaines” and physiological pro ces are narcotic, fatigning, and sometimes lead to vomiting. . This fu«t what the chemical theory requires. The periodicity of sleep would be explained by the cou- he ubstan{ 12, 1887, servation of energy being applicable toall bodily aotivity; work must be followed by repair, life is” a slow suicide. moreover, reason to believe that the ac- tion of these leucomaines 18 a direct one upon the brain; it is a direct intoxication of the brain centres, A theory ot sleep must take gecount of three factors—work, tatigue, and sleep. The chemical theory satisties theso de- mands. All work, muscular or cerebral, produces waste products. These accum- ulate, make work more and more difti- cult; this is fatigue. Asthe process con- tinues, tho waste products, notably tho leucomaines, intoxicate the higher nerve centres (just as a dose of morphine does), and render them incapable of action; that 18 sleep. The picture is, however, much more complex. There is a constant sl,rngp‘:e against the fatigue, which for a time, dy dint of hard work shown in in- creased secretions and so on, may suc- ceed. We probably never arrive at tho extreme limit of work; the sen- sation of fatigue intervene to prevent such o disaster. Fatigue, as is well known, may extend from muscle to nerve and from nerve to nerve centre, We may be very tired from repeatedly lifting a weignt, and not be sleepy, and may be Fenornl y sleeny without any considerable local fatigue. One 18 peripheral, the other central. As the waste products accumulate in the centers, motion and sensation become more and more sluggish, until the time comes when the ordinary stimulation no longer arouses them, and we sleep. Partial sleep can be similarly explained. The centers go to sleep in a_hierarchical order, the highest serving the most deli- cate function going tirst. In waking, the reverse is the case; tho motor centres may be asleep whilo the intellectual centers are awake. In somnambulism the latter may be asleep while the former are awake. The depth of sleep, according to this theory, ought to be proportional to the number of cortical molecules in combi- netion with the leucomaines. In the bo- gixminglol sleep these wre abundant, the cerobral cells inactive, and a combina- tion easy. The sleep is deep. Soon the maximum number of combinations is reached, and sleep is deepest. From here on, the leucomaines are gradually elimated and destroyed, and sleep should decrease with a decreasing intensity. Kohlschutter's experiments on the inten- sity of sleev, as tested by the noise nec- esary to awake the patient, gives the curve of the intensity of sleep corres- ponding to what we would expect by our theory. Variations in our sleep, caused by excess of work, ete., are evidently similarly exvlicable. In short, fatigue is a poison for which sleep is the normal antidote. ‘This theory maintains (1) that the ac- tivity of all the tissues (and primarily of the two most active, the mervous and muscular) gives rise to substances, more or less allied to alkaloids, the leuco- maines; (2) that these induce fatigue and sleep; (3) thus on waking, if the body is restea, these substances have disap- veared. - To compute the demonstration of these statements much careful experimenta- tion is necessary; but the facts as far as they go make 1t probably that the chomi- cal theory of sleep will gain in strength with our knowledge. ———— Trout Tickling. San Franoisco Framiner. “I was astonished to learn by Mr, Thorndyke’s statement that the bears on the shores of Carbion river, at the base of the precipitous Mount Tacoma, have mastered the process of catching the hook nosed salmon by the art of ‘tick- ling,” " said a gentleman who was born on the Emerald Isle and 18 proud of it. ‘I wonder whether the boys of Ireland taught it to them or learned it from them? know when I was a youngter we Irish Iads carried on the sport to an extent that led the pgamekeepers to sus- pect there were more and shrewder poachers in that part of the country than had ever been hounded out of it; but they never suspected that the ragged, bare-footed boy, who whistled as he plucked the blackberries from the hedges, and would have been as familiar with the mariner's compass, had it be placed before him, as with a trout rod, creek recl line and cast of flies, was one of the licenseless culprits who caused the scarcity of trout. “Yet so it was. When the keeper was well out of sight the small boy would throw away the blackberries which he had collected, but did not care to eat, and knowing by long experience where the big speckled fellows loved to lurk, he would dart toa deep, still spot, well shaded, and where the bank overhung the water. Then, crawling to the edge, he would look cautiously over. It a trout was basking near the surface the dirty little hand, making no percepti- ble ripple in the stream, so carefully was it put in, was soon under it. The fingers were then raised until, with al- most incredible gentleness, their points touched the trout's stomach, when a i illation was commenced. This ‘tickling’ part of the maneuy The boys thought the trout enjoyed but perhaps they supposed that it was only the weeds softly brushing them. Anyhow, it rarely disturbed them, and the hand gradually assumed a surer posi= tion, uatil, with a dexterious movement, swift as the lightning flash, tho fish was cast out of the water, guusmlly on the opposite bank. The probabilit; is that the trout so captured is asleep, and, though its eyes arc of course open, it can see nothing. “I have ofien caught two dozen fine trout in a day after this fashion, and all the time kept a bright lookout that I was not ““im m{sull; and while I was ling' them was carefully avoiding sportsmen who, not far away, were fruit- lessly whipping the stream. “The bear seems to capture his prey, a8 it were, by main strength. He just puts his claw under the fish and casts it out. The hook nosed salmon must be a stupid fellow to be so easily taken. The Irish boy has to be more artistic, so, per- haps, he taught the mode of fishing to the bears.” Loc! omb, A more ron tic career can scarcely be imagined thaa that of old “Aunt Hannah,” or at least us she narrated it many, many years ago to an_intimate friend of a writer for the San Francisco Alta. She secms to live on the streets, and as the fanta: 1y clad figure of the shriveled dame »ds past one in the gloaming, or glides silently by the house at the first streak of dawn, a person can- not quite restrain a little shudder. She looks so like a witeh you almost expect atany moment to see” her go soaring over the house tops, mounted on a broom- stick bound for the moon, to sweep away those cobwebs which childish (:u\r}' has woven across the pale satellite of the earth, The lady to whom the story was nar- rated had befriended the forlorn woman, and so won the heart of Aunt Hannah that one day that worthy came in through the basement, as was her wont, and without waiting for an invitation seated herself in the big rocking-ch throwing back her shawl from her b and resting her chin on her skinny hand, as the white locks of hair glided across her face in unheeded confusion. For some time the old crone said nothing, but rocked quietly to and fro. “Thee hast been very kind to me,” she said, suddenly turming toward the lady who sat sewing near at hand, 'L was not always what thee seest me now. I have never told anyone about myself, but thee st been so very kind [ must try and 1ell thee.” She stopped talking a moment, brushed back the straggling locks i an absent but & girl in yoars 1 wedded Reuben. For a year our lives wero filled with hap- iness, but one noon they brought my Kuummtl back to me doad, to me whom but a few houra before he had left in the pride of his strength and lifo. 1don't remember what they told me, and they laced his body 1n the farmly vault long Eeforo the fever had left me. One day, after thoy told me that the baby, t0o, was rosting by its father's side—the baby I had never seen—a great desire came upon me to go to my loved ones, and I deter= mined to do so.” 1 found in the house one day u key, and it flashed across mo that it might unlock the door of the vault, so that night 1 erept out of the house and stole away to the graveyard. 1 had no trouble in finding the vault, and to my Joy the key I had with mo fitted the loc! —the bolt flew back and I rushed in and flung my arms about the casket, as the heavy iron door closed behind me with a clang that awoke the echoes in proe longed reverberations. How long Llay there [ never knew, but it seemei to md that my husband returned to me and 1 felt his arms about me 1n the old caress- ing way. Perhaps it was the cold or hunger that finally induced me to raise myself and grope my way in the dark- ness toward the door. When I reached 1t I feund it would not open, although I put forth all the little strength that was in my wasted body. I was not in the mindea ui contined: “Long ag oh, 80 long was the only child of wealthy let s in Philadelphia. They suid 1 was very comely, and when . e £ 0 ¥ LI K] € ND e s They l least ~ frightened, "and I remember I laughed aloud with delight, for I thought now they could never take me away from my love, and creeping back to the coflin 1 sat down upon it and waited with im- }mliun! longing for -death to join me orever to the loved ones who had been so suddenly snatched from me. As1sat there a dazzling light fell around me and I saw my husband cuminfi toward me with outstretched arms. He was just bendingz down to kiss me when conscious- ness fled, and it was not until months had passed that my friends told me they had not discovered my whereabouts until [ iiad been locked up in the tomb three daye and nights. I have never been quite right in my mind since that time said Aunt Hannah, as her voico sank to a whisper and her mind recalled the ghosllly experience of her early widow- hood. “‘But, Aunt Hannah,” said the ladv, “how did you got to California?’’ “Everything seems so unreal to me, I aon't know quite how 1 did get here. M. friends converted my property into bonds for me, and after my parents died I went to the Sandwich Islands and mot there a man named Potter. He said he loved me and 1 married him, but he deserted me as soon as he got control of what money I had, and I came to California,” and so saying the crone jumped |umh1y to ber feet, and the veil seemed once again to fall across her mind. —_——— “JOHN BROWN'S BODY." Perbaps of Pure Negro Origin and Once the Air of a Voudoo Song. St. James Gazette: You were pleased to publish, a few days ago, a communis- cation from me on the subject of the enesis of the song of ‘‘John Brown,” lf‘lmt of the air to which it is sung is also very interesting, and_ belongs to a coms plete history of the “Marseilluise” of the emancipation. Though adapted to a Methodist hymn, it appears in the begin. ning to have been some kind of a voudoo song, and may be possibly of pure negro origin, Laeutenant Chandler, in an article on Sherman’s march to the sea, says that during a halt at Shady Dale, in Georgia, the federal band struck 'up “John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave.”” Great was the amazement of the soldiers to see a number of negro girls come out one by one from the deserted houses, and, forms ing a ocwrcle round ' the ' b dance in a grave and dignificd ms without smiling, asif in some kina of a magical or religions ceremony. ‘Tha dance over they disappeared. The band played other airs, but the girls did not reappear, and their modest and ecarnest deportment on this occasion made an im- pression on the spectator. Inquiry of an old negro woman elicited the fact that the air was known as ‘“the wedding tune,” that it had no connection with hymns or songs, and that the colored girls all bolieved' that they must dunce whenever they heard it played or that they would never be married. The words and name of ‘‘John Brown's Body" were as yet unknown to every ono then, in that obscure corner of the south. “I wus convinced,” says the writer, ‘“‘that the tune was older where the words were unknown than where they were fa- miliar,”” B I can only add that there are yot in ex- istence in the United States several vou- doo airs and dances, and that one of the most accomphshed ladies whom 1 ever met had learned something of them. It is very probable, as I have already sug: fu.smfl, that in its origin *‘John Brown's 3ody'” belongs to this ‘‘mysterious musie.” CHARLES LELAND, August 22, SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, The city was visited by the usual num- ber of visitors yesterday. A large congregation listened to one of Rev. Hilton's excellent discourses last evening. Not a day passes but some one asks about the new depot for South Omaha. The Union Pacitic superintendent says they will build it as soon as possible, but it is not framed yot . The once famous resort known as *tho beer garden has lost its prestige and was almost deserted yesterday. The lodge of Odd Fellows will meet to- night. ‘The usual number of drunk and disor- derlies were given quarters in the hotel de Rice Saturday night. Work on the grades was suspended yesterday, Mr. Swift, owner of Swift's packing house, was in South Omaha insvecting the new establishment, Lots four and five in block one, Jetter's addition, were sold Saturday evening for 2,900, Patrick Mayle, a resident of Blair, Neb., s yesterday u guest at the Henson hou L. C. Gibson, agent for the syndicate land, sold on Saturday, lot ten in block 109 for $100. L. Palmater, of Goldfield, Ia., spent the Sabbath in the city. Ritehhart & Persons made n sale for #5,000 on Saturday evening of lot 102 in their subdivision fo South Omaha, The real estate men have been g comfitted at the number of purchas: of the “'$10 lots.” ‘They eclaim that » lots are below high water mark and ubmerged almost every year. Miss Dmsy Aikin, of Clarinda, Ia., who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Scott Herald, bas returned home The South Omaha Gunclup has o shoot of dfteen birds each Sunday after- noon. 5. M. Staffer, of Persia, Pa., and John Alt, of Oxford, Pa., are the guests of Dr, G OW. E ations have been made for the foundation of the new South Omaha High scheol building and the work of erection will be this week. The dedication of the Lutheran school house, Sun was quite an haposing affuir, large number of residents of Omaha were press ent and assisted in the ceremol Re Fianzer delivered the dedioatory addre in a very sble manner, which was atten- tively listened to by the large audience. Some excellont singing was rendered by the audience, after which the principal of the school dehvered a short addross and the ceremony was conelud ly w German afternoon, Yankton's nnlitia company captured the lirst prise at the cuenwpment. giish.